We are excited to announce a Sake Dinner at Provenance Restaurant in Beechworth on Friday 2nd December 2016. The delicious 8 course menu will be matched with some wonderful Sake from the Black Market Sake portfolio.

Provenance Restaurant in Beechworth has been at the forefront of the movement to introduce Sake to the modern Australian menu. The range of flavours and textures that Sake offers brings a whole new palate to the art of food and drink matching, and Sake is now an important, even crucial part of what Provenance Restaurant offers.

Michael Ryan, chef and owner of Provenance, will create an 8 course menu to highlight the ability with which Sake can work with food.

Dinner starts at 7pm. The cost for the dinner is $220 (8 courses with matched Sake).

For us at Black Market Sake this is like asking which of your 'children' is you favourite - ALL OF THEM!

However if there is one person who epitomises real 'craft' in the Sake they produce, that person is the incredibly humble Hiroaki Oku - Kuramoto & Toji [Owner and Master Brewer] at Akishika Shuzo. When I make the trip to see Oku-san each year it undoubtably the one visit I most look forward to. He oversees the production of some of the most exciting and high-quality Sake available in the market in Japan and there are few who reach his elusive heights of elegance, complexity and ageability.

It is with great pride that we are able to offer these exceptional Sake here in Australia.

Akishika Shuzo was founded in Osaka prefecture in 1886 and under Hiroaki Oku, the present 6th generation Kuramoto [Brewery Owner], this tiny brewery is creating some of Japan’s most exceptional and unique sake. Oku-san is both Kuramoto and also Toji [Master Brewer] at Akishika and his belief and skill in creating quality sake shows in every bottle.

Akishika Shuzo is one of only a handful of sake breweries that follow the ‘Château concept’ as we see in wine production with Oku-san contracting 20 local farmers to grow rice for his sake in addition to the rice he grows himself (over 25% of what he needs each year). Two of these rice are the ‘King’ and ‘Queen’ of sake rice - Yamada Nishiki and Omachi. Although Oku-san has grown all of his own rice organically for many years, from 2011 he has obtained certification for organic rice cultivation.

Oku-san only brews Junmai [pure rice] sake and as he doesn’t believe in carbon filtering his sake they are also all Muroka. All of the sake Oku-san creates are made with great structure, acidity and body and so are well suited to ageing. Akishika Shuzo have 2 years worth of production ageing at any one time, a massive investment particularly for such a small brewery. Oku-san only releases his sake when he believes they are ready. Sake from Akishika Shuzo have a cult status in the local area and also around Japan, so when Oku-san does release sake they sell out exceptionally quickly. We feel extremely privileged to enjoy them in Australia.

One of our most exciting recent discoveries, the 'Kikutaka' Sakes have arrived.

Fujiichi Shuzō was founded in 1870 and is located north-west of Nagoya in Inazawa City. The Toji [Master Brewer] here is Katsuaki Yamamoto, who took over the head brewer role in 2012. In the short time he has been Toji, Yamamoto-san has quickly placed Fujiichi Shuzo on the Sake ‘map’ with the creation of the ‘Kikutaka’ brand. With this range of products under the Kikutaka label he concentrates on creating Sake with a lot of umami and acidity. This is achieved by meticulous work in the Koji room, where he strives to have every individual grain of rice fully coated before being used in Sake production. This level of care and work ethic has ensured the ‘Kikutaka’ brand as being one of the most sort after in the growing domestic landscape of Sake appreciation.

We are excited to offer these amazing Sake in Australia for the first time and also the first country outside of Japan to receive these products as Fujiichi Shuzo have never exported before now.

We're excited to be part of Mental Notes - a wine party hosted by DRNKS and Mary’s. A tasting of epic proportions at the National Art School, in Darlinghurst on Saturday the 30th of April. You’ll have the opportunity to try over 100 wines from Australia and all over the world, as well as meet the people who make them and import them. In addition, you’ll also be able to sample some rare sake and even rarer spirits.There’s food on the day, provided by Mary’s and the team from Icebergs, and The Unicorn will be running a bar for the duration of the event, so you can slide past for a beer or a glass of wine before, or after the tasting.

Our brand new site is now up and running. Here you'll find information on all of our producers and their products, as well as having the ability to purchase these products directly from us.

We have also added some basic information on Sake and a glossary of terms to help you navigate the complex world of Sake. But don't stress too much, if you have any specific questions please send us an email to hello@blackmarketsake.com and we'll do our best to answer any questions you might have.

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